Brooklyn Magazine’s Gina Florio poignantly discusses the pain of experiencing microaggressions from her own extended family, and “mastering [her] biracial identity:”
I know we’ll eventually find ourselves in another similar situation, in which they’ll hurt me without trying to, marginalize me without realizing it. And when it happens I’ll speak up. Hazy brain and all. Because as the Master, I can at least do my part by teaching what should have been learned a long time ago — and refusing to laugh when the discrimination is anything but funny.
